Who helps after the first visit?

The label is the medicine’s official product information.

For people with diabetes, the semaglutide label calls for checking blood sugar. Diabetes is an illness that affects blood sugar.

It also calls for regular checks of heart rate at rest, meaning how fast the heart beats while resting.

The label asks the clinician to check how well the kidneys work when vomiting or diarrhea could cause major fluid loss.

Ask which test would be used, who arranges it and when it needs to happen. Ask when to call about vomiting or diarrhea.

Ask who reviews results and how you hear from them. Ask what happens if you miss a planned follow-up.

The label for semaglutide (Wegovy) directs clinicians who order medicine to leave at least a two-month gap between stopping treatment and a planned pregnancy.

Semaglutide makes the stomach empty more slowly. During surgery under anesthesia, a person may breathe food left in their stomach into their lungs. Anesthesia is medicine used to put someone to sleep.

The label asks patients to tell their surgical care team they take semaglutide before any planned surgery or procedure.

The evidence does not show whether stopping semaglutide before a procedure lowers this chance of food entering the lungs.

Tell the team before the procedure so they can give you a plan. Ask them what to do about the medicine and food before surgery.

Discuss pregnancy plans or procedure changes with the clinicians treating you.

Ask the service how quickly it aims to reply and who handles problems between visits. Keep that route with your medicine information.

MedWatch is the free medicine-problem reporting service of FDA, the U.S. drug regulator; patients can use it too.

Reporting a problem is not proof that the medicine caused it.